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People crying about developing Wayland compositor/vision of XFCE dropping X11 entirely/using Rust by developer (choose your fighter) in 3... 2... 1... 😄

Okay, now for real: that's a great change. Finally XFCE will start to catch up.

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shady as usual, gpd...

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Quoting: soulsourceRed flag: The I.MX8M Plus is painfully slow...

That's CPU used by Purism in their Librem 5... So painfully slow AND painfully old.

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Quoting: pbWhich means that anyone suing Valve does not represent the interest of the consumers - ever.

That is quite a sentence to write in a post probably meant not to be corporate bootlicking 😆

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Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: ArehandoroWhile I agree with you, in this case the person that did the estimate is the same that did the work in one day 😅

" Hey look boss the thing i said would take 8 months took one day ! ,
Am i a good boy now, do i get a promotion ? Ohh OK, then maybe just another new project i guess.
... wait , you don't need me as much for the next 8 months ... wait you don't need me as much at all now, what's going on .. " 😆

At least extend the job a few months, jeez. There's always more work to do, and a company will typical NOT value something like this as much as you would like to think in terms of employee relations. And i know this is going to sound bad to some, but it kind of puts a lot of strain on the rest of a team to do the same, making the demands on everyone much higher & leading to everyone now having to rely on Ai more than critical thinking to pump out projects as fast as the previous bar was set. Playing right into the management / CEO's hands. At some point this 'extra efficiency' leads to a nice game of roulette as to which Dev gets to tell their family there not economically viable anymore. I mean, don't shirk your responsibilities but you have to work out a good work life balance within your role.

So do your work well. Efficiently but learn how to play the game at least a little bit. Remember the management already learned how to play the game hence why they have so many 'strategic meetings' and paid for business trips to fancy hotels in foreign countries.

This is a different topic, or perhaps the consequences of said actions, but I do agree with the sentiment.

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I never was into extraction shooters before but this game is something else. You can play it casually solo and do your things with hardly any PvP at all if you chose to play that way. It matches agressive players into same matches as priority and also non agressives togheter.

and yeah the game looks really good visually and runs great even on my aging system (by todays standards).

every time i have taken a few days break from it and return, the first match when i spawn in i'm always like "woow this lighting and texture detail"

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Red flag: The I.MX8M Plus is painfully slow...

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Time to go back to Terraria yippeee

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Quoting: drenThe amount of corporate bootlicking happening here is crazy. We are talking about a company that effectively has a monopoly on game sales

A natural monopoly is not inherently a bad thing and does not make the company evil. As a rule of thumb, if the general public would be better after the monopolist disappears, then it's beneficial to try and bring them down. Would it be the case with Valve? I very much doubt it. The games would not get any cheaper, and nobody - for years - would provide players with the ecosystem on par with what Valve has built. That in itself is worth putting up with some idiosyncrasies. Which means that anyone suing Valve does not represent the interest of the consumers - ever.

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Anyone who complaining about 30% or something similar go work at retail or even bigger stinker - hospitality. As someone pointed out - show or prove that service on same level as Steam can operate properly, well below 30%.
... or everyone, just lets go back to 70's-90's and everything will be solved. Printing office and box taking nice cut... not to mention other physical parts, whole distribution and retail. Everyone will be happy, it's just 70%-90% cut or something.

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Hell, it's about time... /saidwithcigarinmouth

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Quoting: CaldathrasSpeaking from long experience in the retail industry, 30% is pretty much standard fair unless you are targeting wholesale business levels (mega corps with big box storefronts like Walmart, Home Depot, Office Depot, Best Buy, etc.). Computer hardware and livestock feed are two areas that I am aware of that operate on wholesale pricing margins. As such, I have absolutely no objections to Valve's commission structure and see no reason why they should be expected to target wholesale margins like the big box mega corps.

There is no argument anywhere that this isn't standard.

The argument is that the standard is simply way too high, filling coffers drastically more for the one taking the cut.
As someone who has worked with online infrastructures for ages, there is no calculation that even remotely ends in the 30% range of cost coverage.
Much more realistic is somewhere between 12-20% - and that doesn't even take into account all the services Valve charges for with that cut, WHICH AREN'T EVEN USED BY THE MAJORITY OF DEVS.
There is also size - a 2GB game quite frankly should get a (marginally, as one factor of many) lower cut than a 200GB one. Yet that doesn't happen.
Etc.
The whole system is full of logic holes like that. It is equal for all, but somewhat paradoxically, that does not make it fair.

I do not believe physical stores are a good comparison to digital ones. Digital infrastructure is much, much, much, much cheaper.
Although, hey, with the current pricing spikes and shortages, who knows, maybe we'll actually end up with 30% becoming reasonable.
I sure hope not...

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Nope, no breaks so far. It did happen previously, when I was originally on Endeavour a couple of years back. Then I switched to Siduction for a couple of years. Just recently back on Arch, this time via CachyOS and it's been a great experience.

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China's CCP with UK overtones. That's what this all is becoming.

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Quoting: Mountain ManFrankly, I have no time or patience for people who dismiss an opposing opinion as "drinking the cool-aid".

That is okay, not everyone can deal with honesty and rather just goes "lalala I can't hear you" when being called out on how wrong they are.

Let's be honest here, you aren't engaging with any arguments because you know you've already lost them, and the cool-aid snip gave you a good exit strategy.

Quoting: CaldathrasIt means blindly accepting direction and/or the status quo without giving it any consideration of your own. From what I've read, this does not seem to apply to you.

Oh, but it does.
Everyone who would actually give these things consideration would realize that the publisher's talking points are entirely wrong, with no basis in reality - because they are almost entirely strawmen.
Opinions are not equal - they can be right, and they can be wrong, and they can be in-between.

At least if they are capable of reason, and I very much believe Mountain Man is, he just doesn't want to admit how wrong he is here.

He might still be very right regarding the outcome, though.
It all depends on how well the initiative can prepare for and counter these strawmen in actual parliament.
This is somewhat out of non-European hands, but once the process for that opens and there are some centralized calls to action, I very much intend to contact whatever MPs would be "responsible for me" about this.

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No info on the sort of Graphics chipset? Obviously its integrated into the CPU package.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: LupertEverett

2: In-game purchases yadda yadda

"Hey Sony, so I have this DLC for a game I bought from GOG, can I play this on PlayStation?", said nobody ever.

True - it is also not even remotely the point made in the lawsuit.
But tearing that strawman down sure must've felt great.

Quoting: LupertEverett

3: Commissions commissions

The fee, that is... 30%...

You know... the same amount Sony and Apple also gets, yet somehow it is only Steam who is constantly put on target for it.

Lol, lmao even.

Hmmm....
You mean only Steam as in:
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/legal-claim-filed-against-sony-over-30-store-cut (Sony)
https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1751446916 (also Sony, but other country)
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/10/1023834758/apple-app-store-epic-games-fortnite-verdict
I'm quite certain there were more, but I can't be bothered to do more digging.

What was that common sense rule again, about not talking about a topic you know nothing about?
I can't quite remember.
Oh, well.

But I guess it is really surprising that we hear more about Valve on this Linux-focused website.

What I am saying is that it is pretty much the rule instead of the exception *everywhere*.

Hell, Steam is actually an exception here because they do nothing of the sort when it comes to in-game purchases.

Like, you can just go and buy Factorio: Space Age from the dev's own page and download it and play it on your Steam copy of Factorio. Right now. Without giving Valve any cut whatsoever.

Therefore it is entirely an "issue" on the developer-side and it is not Valve's fault if the devs/publishers don't do jack shit about implementing such a feature.

Lastly thanks for the links about cases, I honestly had no idea about them. Still once again, the 30% cut is a rule rather than the exception and I am personally fine with it if they are going to be used to improve the Linux ecosystem. Not to mention that having much reduced cuts usually doesn't result in prices being less in the stores that practice such a thing so (there is so far one exception I know of, a game called Heard of The Story, which also goes against the first argument in the case that is Valve forcing their prices on others so... lol), this argument of theirs is also doubly pointless.

Now go, scram. I am done talking to you.

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Quoting: scaineI suppose the performance thing is cool, but the bit of CachyOS I love is that it integrates snapper into grub seamlessly, so if you break your system (say, an aberrant Arch update), you just reboot into an earlier snapshot and you've learned your lesson. Takes all the pressure off the fact it's Arch. Or being an idiot like me and constantly experimenting with stuff and breaking things.

I'd like them to include ChaoticAUR by default, like Garuda does, but it's straightforward enough to add manually. If you haven't used ChaoticAUR before, it's a precompiled version of the AUR - very fast, because it acts like any other Arch source. No waiting around for AUR compiles.

My next challenge with CachyOS is integrating the boot with TPM, so I don't have to manually unlock my disks at startup. If that's successful, I don't think I'll be distro-hopping for a long, long time.

Have you actually managed to break it yet? I haven't which is a first for me :) Alot of people talk about how Arch updates break their systems but I update all the time with zero issues. Although I haven't used ChaoticAUR yet so that maybe a factor? it's a nice feeling having snapper setup for you as a safety net though.

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Curupira

a significantly reworked installer, which also now includes bootloader selection

I can vouch that CachyOS installer included a bootloader selection screen since I've first tried it (more than a year ago). Maybe even earlier. :)

I'm not too clued up on it, but it seems it was done differently before. Direct from their blog post "bootloader selection has been moved directly into the installer".

Yeah, it's weird. When I fist installed this, about 8 months back, it asks if you want Grub, SystemD-boot or a couple of others. So it's technically been there for a while. I wonder how it's changed that warrants that update message?

It does but it looks different now. Also before I think SystemD-boot was pre-selected but now Limine is the new default. It's a great bootloader and I haven't had any issues at all.

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Quoting: PyreticUnfortunately, NVIDIA's and AMD's Vulkan drivers on Windows is such a goddamn mess

There's quite a history of poor OpenGL support from smaller GPU vendors (most of whom went out of business), and AMD has always had rather lackluster drivers (it's so much better having Red Hat, Valve, Google, and so on, doing the Linux drivers - if you've been around long enough to remember fglrx, you know how much better it is now). But as far as I know, iD did quite well making Windows games that used OpenGL and Vulkan... they were probably the largest, but certainly not the only ones?

Rather than the drivers being "a goddamn mess", I suspect a lot of it is the game engines being the problem. Godot shouldn't have that problem, but I have no idea what issues people ran into (maybe Intel and AMD Windows driver bugs?).

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Quoting: Mountain Manany product that depends on servers will be required to carry a prominent disclaimer that necessary online services could be discontinued at any time without warning.

I suppose even that would be an improvement, for games where it is not obvious. Far short of the intent behind the campaign, but sidesteps the appearance of deceit (you bought it with knowledge that we could screw you over at any time). I'm sure there's limitations of liability involved there - i.e. stop selling the game x months prior to final shut off.

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Quoting: Phlebiac(BanjoRecompiled:22645): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 22:01:17.745: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Then getting a SIGSEGV and crashing out

The flatpak version doesn't crash out, but tells me my ROM is the wrong version. Guess I can't win. :)

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Quoting: scaineI suppose the performance thing is cool, but the bit of CachyOS I love is that it integrates snapper into grub seamlessly, so if you break your system (say, an aberrant Arch update), you just reboot into an earlier snapshot and you've learned your lesson. Takes all the pressure off the fact it's Arch. Or being an idiot like me and constantly experimenting with stuff and breaking things.

I'd like them to include ChaoticAUR by default, like Garuda does, but it's straightforward enough to add manually. If you haven't used ChaoticAUR before, it's a precompiled version of the AUR - very fast, because it acts like any other Arch source. No waiting around for AUR compiles.

My next challenge with CachyOS is integrating the boot with TPM, so I don't have to manually unlock my disks at startup. If that's successful, I don't think I'll be distro-hopping for a long, long time.

I wish it was always that easy. Apparently if the update include a kernel update as well and you roll back, things break sort of irreversibly.I wasn't able to boot into GUI, or perform any commands. Thank god the team has though of that too, so you can use the live usb to chroot and re-update the rolled back packages.

Been using it for a year and a half now, my only issue was a KDE issue where Adaptive Sync - Always was making the screen flicker and lose signal ALL the time. Took me several reinstalls to finally pin point the issue and just set that option to Never.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: PhlebiacBoth this and Zelda64 crash out when I select the "Load ROM" menu option. I'm guessing it's supposed to show a file picker?

If you want to deep dive, strace would probably tell you what they're trying to load there.

Good call, but I'm not sure it tells me much: it looks like it's reading every file under /usr/share/applications (*.desktop files), then looking in /usr/share/cloud-providers (doesn't exist), then getting the pid and reading /etc/localtime to dump out this error message:
(BanjoRecompiled:22645): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 22:01:17.745: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

Then getting a SIGSEGV and crashing out:

ioctl(2, TCGETS, {c_iflag=ICRNL|IXON|IUTF8, c_oflag=NL0|CR0|TAB0|BS0|VT0|FF0|OPOST|ONLCR, c_cflag=B38400|CS8|CREAD, c_lflag=ISIG|ICANON|ECHO|ECHOE|ECHOK|IEXTEN|ECHOCTL|ECHOKE, ...}) = 0
getpid() = 22645
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2852, ...}, 0) = 0
write(2, "\n(BanjoRecompiled:22645): GLib-G"..., 128) = 128
write(2, "ject)' failed\n", 14) = 14
--- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=0x18} ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++

Tried Zelda64, and that one worked today. Brought up the file picker, I selected the ROM, and it all works now, even though it was failing the same as Banjo before...

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Quoting: The_Real_BittermanFedora based ... no thanks

Whats wrong with Fedora?

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Quoting: drenThe amount of corporate bootlicking happening here is crazy. We are talking about a company that effectively has a monopoly on game sales, that promotes a skin gambling ecosystem that is available to minors ("loot boxes"), that for years resisted giving refunds, whos subscriber agreement attempts to prevent class action lawsuits, and who tried to monetize community made mods. Let's also not forget how shitty it was to force users onto a game, CS2, and mothball the better version, CSGO, who can't count to three (ignoring rumors), etc. As a linux gamer, I appreciate that they have made gaming on linux better, but lets not pretend that they aren't interested in getting people onto their own OS, SteamOS, so they can again increase their own margins via hardware and licensing. I think it is best to keep these corporations at an arms length at best. I love GOG because I can actually buy and own games, but they are still a corporation and corporate track records are pretty shitty these days.

You're right to keep corporations at arm's length, but it’s worth noting that Valve’s approach is uniquely beneficial to the Linux community compared to other giants. Most of the tech they develop Proton/Wine contributions, Vulkan improvements is open source. Even if Steam disappeared tomorrow, the work they’ve done on the Linux kernel and graphics drivers stays in the ecosystem. They aren't just building a "walled garden" they’re building a garden that everyone else including GOG or Heroic users gets to benefit from. That’s a massive shift from how Microsoft or Sony operates. :)

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Quoting: ArdjeThe game looks nice. But I hate other players. I mean, there will probably always be at least one that I hate. Just like the Ark: SE GOL server where I spend my 1 hour free time every few days in, only to start all over again because of that one person.

It has aggression-based matchmaking, so you'll rarely ever get shot by players if you don't shoot back. If you play in pairs, it's a bit tougher to find friendly pairs (let's say it's 50-50 chance), and in trios, well, I haven't tried it yet but I've heard it's pretty much all PvP.

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Quoting: TarosReally should have a look at this game after having heard so much positive about this game. But maybe this was about the Battlefront 2 from 2005 xD

I got it during the Steam Winter sale for like $5 CAD, and it is fantastic. I haven't looked into KYBER at all yet, the official servers are pretty active. But I will keep my eye on it.

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It's a nice update, but the great stuff (new big ARC, new map) is coming in April!

Quoting: CaldathrasThis is not at all my kind of game, but I am continually blown away be the graphics quality, lighting and shading in the pictures GoL puts up.

I'm not big into multiplayer, let alone multiplayer-only games. But this one, I broke down and bought it and it's hooked me. I'm up to 55 hours in about 3 weeks, which is quite high for me. I'm not great at the game, but it's a very satisfying game loop that has sucked me in.

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I've mostly used Debian since 2003, and Mandrake before that. A brief stint on Ubuntu, and I've tested a bunch of other distros for a day or so each. Recently I tried out CachyOS and it's still on my main system. Has it stolen me away from Debian? Maybe... Time will tell. Pretty happy with it so far (and I tried Bazzite and a Fedora right before trying Cachy).

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[quote=Pyrate]

Quoting: MinoscerebMy use case for Lutris over Heroic is for those game setup files I find laying on the ground after they fell off a truck full of game setup files. The customizability shines better there, even if both programs are capable of the same end results eventually.

[quote=Doktor-Mandrake]

Quoting: MinoscerebI like lutris for the setup scripts for old gamss

I have almost completely switched to Heroic for no good reason other than "I like it", and I too find old setups that have fallen off of the back of the truck from time to time. You can install them fine with Heroic. It is as simple as Add Game -> Select Executable (or installer) and go.

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